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22% of Assam’s Workforce Lost Jobs During COVID: Study
24 Sep 2021
The majority of jobs lost were in travel, construction, transport, textile and the hospitality sectors.
Subodh Varma
'Double Engine' But No Jobs in UP
23 Sep 2021
The number of unemployed has steadily grown in Uttar Pradesh despite the much-hyped “double engine” of Yogi as CM and Modi as PM.
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1.5 million job losses in August in formal and informal sectors: Report
03 Sep 2021
The latest CMIE data for August 2021 reveal that 1.5 million jobs were lost in both the formal and informal sectors in August. The unemployment rate rose from 6.95% in July to 8.32% in August.
Priyanka Ishwari
BJP Destroying Uttarakhand’s Hopes for Development
29 Aug 2021
At 22.3%, Uttarakhand recorded the highest unemployment rate in the country in September 2020.
Rabindra Nath Sinha
Bengal Industrial Promotion Board Meaningless with Hands-off Land Policy
28 Aug 2021
Mamata has to spell out her government’s land acquisition policy clearly to assure big-ticket investors
Smruti Koppikar
Covid-19: Indian Women Urgently Need Gendered Response and Recovery Plan
12 Apr 2021
As with vaccine management, so with women hit by the pandemic—a year after the government knew what lay ahead, it has spectacularly failed to evolve a response.
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Unemployment Rate was 28.5% in Capital in Oct-Nov; for Women 54.7%: Delhi Govt Survey
18 Mar 2021
COVID-19 Disruption: Out of 89% of the unemployed people surveyed, 56% said they were without work for close to half a year and were still on the lookout for a job, said the report.
Ajaz Ashraf
Ironically, an OBC Prime Minister is Bringing about De-reservation: Justice Eswaraiah
02 Mar 2021
Rohini Commission is blindfolded in its search for a way to subcategorise OBC castes in the central list for reservation.
Sandip Chakraborty
Over 100 Hospitalised After Police Lathi-Charge on Left Youth March in Kolkata for Jobs
11 Feb 2021
Left and Congress call for 12-hour statewide ‘bandh’ on Friday against ‘brutal’ lathi-charge on students and youth as well on para-teachers recently, leaving several seriously injured.
Sandip Chakraborty
Kolkata: Scores of Women Protesters Beaten by Male Police in Protest for Jobs, Against Farm Laws
10 Feb 2021
Over 200 activists were arrested and the AIDWA said that the police barricaded their dharna venue and later “beat them up with lathis, kicked them in the abdomen, dragged them by the hair to the…